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Australia is the world's largest producer of wool. [49] The Australian wool industry was worth $3.6 billion in 2022. [50] The total number of sheep is estimated to be 75 million. [49] In the late 1980s, the sheep flock was 180 million. [51] Only 5% of Australia's wool clip is processed onshore. [50]
Australia is also a centre of diversity for the Proteaceae, with woody, well-known genera such as Banksia, Dryandra, Grevillea, Hakea, the waratah and Australia's only commercial native food crop, the macadamia. Australia also has representatives of all three legume subfamilies. Caesalpinioideae is notably represented by Cassia trees.
Poa labillardierei is a dense coarsely tufted grasses and can reach a height of 120 cm. [4] The large grass is a perennial, [8] that germinates from seed or division. [4] Leaves mostly basal, very long; sheath usually pallid at the base, upper ± scabrous; ligule c. 0.5 mm long, truncate; blade to 80 cm long, flat or inrolled, to 3.5 mm wide ...
Native millet is specifically a C4 tussock forming perennial with glabrous blue-green blade-like leaves with a pale line running down the middle on the front of the leaves and a protruding spine, known as the keel, at the back of the leaves. The grass can grow up to 145 cm tall with seed heads that can grow up to approximately 40 cm in length.
Themeda triandra is a species of C 4 perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific [2].In Australia it is commonly known as kangaroo grass [3] and in East Africa and South Africa it is known as red grass and red oat grass or as rooigras in Afrikaans.
Cutting grass in southern Tasmania. Gahnia grandis originated in southern Australia. About 40 species are found in Australia, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. [6] The species is found particularly in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Victoria, [7] where it is native to areas such as the Gippsland plain, Wilsons Promontory, and Highlands-Southern Fall bioregions.
Microlaena stipoides grows to a height of approximately 0.7 metres and produces delicate, drooping stalks of spikelets. [3] The naked caryopses (grains) are similar in shape to rice grains but smaller, approximately 5 mm long, with a mass that varies widely, ranging from 1 mg to 7 mg. [5] [6] [8] The grass grows best in acidic soils and is drought- and frost-tolerant. [9]
It does best in areas with a Mediterranean climate, such as California and parts of southern Australia, but it is quite tolerant of many climates. Ripgut brome is a winter annual that grows throughout winter and spring and matures in the summer. The adult plant is one to three feet in height with hairy, rough leaves about a centimeter wide.